6 hour format
Skill level: All levels
Sewing machine (not required)
iron and board optional
Supply Fee: $10.00 per student
Optional Kit $25.00
Your small scale textile art will never be mistaken for a potholder again! Come create a small fabric collage, learn some basic design, a few stitching and beading techniques, and make a small art-quilt.While you prepare a canvas on which to mount your artwork, Lyric will demonstrate a number of different framing and mounting possibilities suitable for any textile treasure you create.
Supplies:
$10.00 supply fee (covers framing materials)
Fabric scissors
Small shallow bowl or container to keep beads in (“Altoid” type tins work well)
Rubber finger (optional – to help pull your needles… from an office supply store)
Lamp or Magnifying lamp (optional)
Buy a kit ($25) There is no need to reserve a kit. Lyric will bring plenty.
OR bring:
- seed beads: size 11 and/or 15, 1 tube each of 2 colors
- seed beads: size 6, 1 tube
- bugle beads: 1 tube
- cabochon, button (no shank) or flat bead, minimum 20mm diameter
- fat quarter or 8×10 piece of background fabric
- couple of fabric scraps (pre-fused to wonder-under if you’d like to save a little time)
- long applique needle size 11 (I prefer foxglove cottage straw needles)
- batting, fat quarter sized or 8”x10”
- wonder-under, 1/2 yd
- Fabric for back of quilt, 8”x10” or fat quarter
- nymo or sylamide beading thread: to match your beads or background fabric
Some of my classes get taught all the time, some only occasionally. Picture It Framed is a class that is seldom chosen by guilds and I had completely forgotten how much fun it is!
Lisa Dodson
The Illini Country Stitchers are a happy and fabulous group of women who were a blast to have in class! Maggie Szfranski
We spent the morning learning beading techniques and creating a small art quilt then painted gallery wrapped canvases to mount them on. Dianne Pedersen
I also demonstrated a whole bunch of different framing and mounting methods.